My BBC Radio 4 thing
Part one of the BBC Radio 4 programme, Cat Women of the Moon, is up on iPlayer. It’s an interesting mix of…
Read moreMonth: August 2011
It’s time for the Lambda Literary Foundation to stand up
The Lambda Literary Foundation released its new award eligibility criteria today: LGBT authors will be recognized with three awards marking stages of…
Read moreAlisha Baker prints for sale
Alisha Baker, We Dance the World Into and Out of Creation, relief print on paper hand-painted frame acrylic on wood, 14″x17″ $215….
Read moreAre queers human?
From lippenheimer, a thoughtful review of Slow River, pondering the consequences of straight/queer equality: One of the main questions that classic feminist…
Read moreClarion West one-day writing workshops
Clarion West is the best genre writing workshop in the world. It’s a six-week writing boot camp in Seattle. Each week is…
Read moreI own seventh-century Britain
this is all mine… I spent some time yesterday pondering domain names for the Hild novels. Then I went shopping. I got…
Read moreRadio Times review of ‘Cat Women of the Moon’: sex and gender in sf
Just found this Radio Times review of “Cat Women of the Moon,” the 2-part BBC Radio 4 documentary about sex and gender…
Read moreHow lucky I am
Yesterday, I saw this tweet from @oatmeal. (You have to go click the link and look at the photo or this post…
Read moreSecond draft of Hild is done, baby, done
I’ve just finished the second draft of Hild. It weighs in at 962 pages: 196,221 words. It started out at 976. I…
Read moreFrom Ur or Roman Britain?
Here’s a guessing game for you. Is this jar Roman (from first century Britain) or is it from the ancient city of…
Read moreFinally bronze bras make sense
As anyone who’s read Patrick O’Brian knows, it’s best to fight duels without clothes (cloth pushed into a wound via blade or…
Read moreCat Women of the Moon
No, I’m not referring to the, ah, classic 1953 movie starring Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory and Marie Windsor, but to a BBC…
Read moreFree wine and pretty pictures: Alisha Baker, Thursday
Alisha Baker, “Dancing with Chaos” (18″ x 24″) A reminder to come join me and Kelley at Alisha’s Baker’s gallery show here…
Read moreSex is better than cream cake, and Elvis sucks
I still haven’t forgiven Elvis for dying. I wake up cross on August 16th every year. (No, not really. But every year…
Read moreI need your help
Three years ago I wrote a blog post called You’ve been warned, a combination rant, promise, and manifesto. A couple of weeks…
Read moreFun with maths!
From Vi Hart, two nifty videos of ways to play with maths. And I mean play. It’s Sunday. That’s what Sunday is…
Read moreHow to make a chocolate book
I’m busy with Hild today so I thought I’d amuse you with this notion: making books of chocolate. If your definition of…
Read moreSilence on the Salish Sea
photo taken with crapcam, sorry about that I woke to time out of time: a still morning draped in silence and mist….
Read moreVines do grow
The honeysuckle is blossoming, twining vinously over everything. Sort of like my Hild sentences. The vines, though, will just get bigger and…
Read moreJoin us and Alisha Baker, August 18th Seattle
One of our favourite artists is Alisha Baker. We own four of her paintings. Three of them live in the Alisha Baker…
Read moreThe QED seal of approval for ebooks
This strikes me as a step forward. Publishing Innovation Awards has announced the QED seal, a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval™ for…
Read moreCutting a language core through the bedrock of English
I posted this yesterday on my other blog. Most of you, I’m sure, don’t read that. So: —- One of the big…
Read moreIn Time: movie trailer
http://cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com/storage/xplayer/yo033.swf This looks interesting in a metaphor-made-concrete way: time is money. I’m out for the rest of the day: Hild is demanding…
Read moreMaimkilldestroy
Somewhere in Seattle there’s a nurse with a crushed hand. My fault. She was holding my hand while another nurse was trying,…
Read moreChanging gears with LLF
After two years as a Trustee of the Lambda Literary Foundation, it’s time for me to change gears. It seems like a…
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